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newborn

newborn

12 1.0
Born very recently, as a baby or young animal
  • adjective
  • /ˈnuːbɔrn/
translation icon : recién nacido
  • Young couple comes home from the hospital with their newborn baby.
  • newborn babies
  • newborn infants
  • newborn calves

You're like, well, Kevin, here's the newborn screen.

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Examples

  • The young couple proudly introduced their newborn baby to family and friends.

  • Parents walk with their newborn babies to calm them down all the time.

    Blog text (19)
  • I promise to treat her with all the love and respect of my newborn daughter.

  • No newborn baby has control.

  • Willow and Henry were there with their newborn baby.

  • I admit that I get jealous when I see newborn twins sleeping together.

    Blog text (7)
  • Ted, holding his newborn daughter, sat quietly next to the bed where his sheet-covered wife still lies.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • But recently they'd moved back to Annette with their newborn son.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • In 1926, however, disaster struck: within a few months, Schumpeter's mother, wife, and newborn son died.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I could even start with a peace offering like this video of newborn kittens chasing a laser pointer.

    Blog text (28)

Synonyms

neonatal
vsnewborn
  • Specialized
16 4.9

Relating to newborn babies during their first month after birth

applies to babies or animals that came into existence only a short time ago

Antonyms

1.0

A person who is fully grown and no longer a child

64 3.4

Fully developed and ready to eat or use

Compounds

High levels of a yellow blood substance in newborn babies that make their skin and eyes yellow

4.1

A yellow colour on a newborn baby's skin that usually goes away on its own

A serious lung problem in newborn babies, often premature, when their lungs cannot open properly and they have trouble breathing

Newborn babies breathe quickly and then stop for short times

A common harmless yellowing of a baby's skin and eyes from an immature liver that goes away

How Young

newborn
12 1.0
young
1.0
juvenile
176 4.2
adult
110 1.0

Surface Forms

newborn positive

Morphology

newborn = new + born (transparent) = new + born

The adjective is a clear compound of 'new' + 'born'; the meaning 'recently born' follows directly.

Etymology

As an adjective, newborn is made from new ('not old') plus born ('to be born'), so it describes a baby or animal that was recently born.